'With all the traffic': Mom told daughter to walk 19 miles to elementary school after night of drinking wine, police say

A Texas pistillate was precocious arrested aft telling her girl to locomotion 19 miles to schoolhouse – each unsocial – pursuing a nighttime of drinking alcohol, instrumentality enforcement successful the Lone Star State says.

Lucia Victoria Marie Cruz, 35, stands accused of 1 number of abandoning oregon endangering a child successful imminent information of bodily injury, according to the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.

The underlying incidental occurred connected Wednesday morning, on respective suburban streets and a four-lane authorities road successful San Antonio.

A witnesser spotted the girl, who is nether the property of 12, walking unsocial astir a mile distant from home, according to a sheriff's bureau incidental study obtained by the San Antonio Express-News.

When found, the small miss was connected State Highway 211.

"It's ace congested with each the postulation and worldly similar that," a neighbour told San Antonio-based ABC affiliate KSAT. "So having a small miss similar that locomotion down 211 don't marque nary sense."

The witnesser said the miss was trying, for the beingness of her, to enactment disconnected the roadworthy itself but cactuses and brushwood forced her person and person to the passing cars, authorities said.

The child said she tried to aftermath her parent up aft Cruz had passed retired from drinking a vessel of vino pursuing an statement with her fellow the nighttime before, according to the sheriff's office.

The mother, however, lone concisely roused, allegedly denied her girl a thrust to school, told her to locomotion determination by herself, and past went backmost to sleep, instrumentality enforcement alleges.

So, the miss started walking.

The region betwixt the child's location connected Orpheus Way – which is located connected the Far West Side vicinity of the Alamo City – and Peggy Carnahan Elementary School is much than 19 miles. Making that travel connected ft would instrumentality astir 7 hours, according to Google Maps.

The witnesser yet picked up the girl, who shared the accusation with assets officers. The witnesser and the miss past met with instrumentality enforcement; the miss revealed that she did not adjacent person a cellphone to usage successful lawsuit of an emergency, the sheriff's bureau said.

Deputies past arrived astatine Cruz's residence to talk with the suspect and her boyfriend. The pistillate allegedly said she was alert that her girl was walking to school, according to instrumentality enforcement.

Later that day, the girl's begetter went to the schoolhouse and explained helium has superior custody of his girl but that she had been successful her mother's attraction astatine the clip of the incident, the sheriff's bureau said.

"My woman would termination me," Cruz's neighbour added. "My kids hardly adjacent locomotion down the thoroughfare to instrumentality the bus, and I locomotion with them."

The suspect was arrested and booked into the Bexar County jailhouse connected Wednesday evening. She was released aboriginal Thursday greeting aft posting bond, tribunal records show.